Cliff Sunflower, the Beekeeper, recently came to visit Yavneh Academy with thousands of his bees. Yavneh’s early childhood students and first graders had the unique opportunity to role-play a honeybee hive. The students are now familiar with many new vocabulary words such as: abdomen, antennae, colony, thorax, proboscis, pollination, larvae, mandibles and pupa and they are now experts on the metamorphosis of honey bees. The students also participated in a Bee Workshop where they tasted different types of honey in honor of Rosh Hashanah, made beeswax candles, wore beekeeper gear, and watched live honeybees.